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With the rise of the handheld gaming PC market, we've seen PC vendors and their partners toy with a number of tricks and tweaks to improve improve framerates in games, with some of their latest efforts on display at this year's Computex trade show. Perhaps the most interesting find thus far comes from ADATA sub-brand XPG, who is demoing their prototype "Nia" handheld PC, which uses eye tracking and dynamic foveated rendering to further improve their rendering performance. For those unfamiliar, dynamic foveated rendering is a graphics technique that is sometimes used to boost performance in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications by taking advantage of how human vision works. Typically, humans can only perceive detailed imagery in the relatively small central area...
AMD to Unveil 'Major' New Radeon Products Next Week at Gamescom
Earlier this month, AMD said that it would refresh its lineup of Radeon RX graphics cards for gamers this quarter, and apparently, the new products are set to be...
27 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2023AMD to Introduce New Enthusiast-Class Graphics Cards This Quarter
As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD revealed that the company is getting ready to launch new enthusiast-class Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in the coming...
30 by Anton Shilov on 8/3/2023AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: Pro RDNA 3 For The Mid-Range
As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their next wave of professional cards...
5 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2023AMD Announces Ryzen 9 7945HX3D: Ryzen Mobile Gets 3D V-Cache
For this year's ChinaJoy expo, AMD is taking to the show to announce a new and very special mobile CPU for high-end, desktop replacement-class laptops: the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/27/2023AMD Launches Ryzen 5 7500F in China: Zen 4 With no Integrated Graphics
Over the weekend, AMD officially listed the Ryzen 5 7500F processor on their website. Although initial reports pointed towards a China-only release, and at present, that much is true...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/24/2023Ultra Ethernet Consortium Formed, Plans to Adapt Ethernet for AI and HPC Needs
This week the Linux Foundation has announced that the group will be overseeing the formation of a new Ethernet consortium, with a focus on adapting and refining the technology...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2023ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB
Last month at Computex, ASRock unveiled two new Taichi-inspired motherboards based on a 'lite' approach to aesthetics and design, which they called Taichi Lite. Today, ASRock has officially announced...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/13/2023AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4
Further to AMD's latest Micro Center exclusive processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D with 3D V-Cache, AMD has seemingly introduced a budget-focused quad-core processor based on their Zen 3 architecture...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/12/2023El Capitan's Little Brother Tuolumne Can Conquer Most Top 10 Supercomputers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises to achieve computational performance of over 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS for classified national security research. Parallel...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2023El Capitan Installation Begins: First APU-based Exascale System Shaping Up For 2024
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had received the first components of its upcoming El Capitan supercomputer and begun to install them, the laboratory announced on Wednesday. The system is set...
18 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2023AMD To Release Limited Run Ryzen 5 5600X3D for $230, Micro Center Exclusive
With AMD now several months post release of their current AM5 platform, I figured that the sun was setting on AMD’s previous-generation AM4 platform. But, it would seem, AM4...
39 by Ryan Smith on 7/1/2023AMD: Partial RDNA 3 Video Card Support Coming to Future ROCm Releases
AMD this morning is formally announcing the launch of the latest version of its GPU compute software stack, ROCm 5.7. Along with making several important updates to the software...
15 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2023Noctua Releases Direct Die Kit for Delidded Ryzen 7000 CPUs
Noctua has announced a unique kit designed to enable the company's coolers to be installed on delidded AMD Ryzen 7000-series processors. The NM-DD1 kit, which can be either ordered...
15 by Anton Shilov on 6/27/2023Gigabyte's Low-Cost Mini-ITX A620 Motherboard Supports Ryzen R9 7950X, R9 7950X3D CPUs
Gigabyte has quietly introduced one of the industry's first inexpensive motherboards for AMD's AM5 processors in Mini-ITX form-factor. The most unexpected peculiarity of Gigabyte's A620I AX motherboard — based...
19 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023Noctua's New Cooler Mounting to Lower Temps of AMD's AM5 CPUs
AMD's latest Ryzen 7000-series CPUs in AM5 packaging are well known for their high operating temperatures. Higher-performance coolers like all-in-one liquid cooling systems have typically solved the problem. Noctua...
19 by Anton Shilov on 6/20/2023Razer Updates The Blade 14 With Ryzen 9 7940HS, Up to RTX 4070 and 32 GB DDR5-5600
Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI, the Ryzen 7040HS mobile chips, are becoming more widely...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/14/2023AMD Expands AI/HPC Product Lineup With Flagship GPU-only Instinct MI300X with 192GB Memory
Alongside their EPYC server CPU updates, as part of today’s AMD Data Center event, the company is also offering an update on the status of their nearly-finished AMD Instinct...
28 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023AMD: EPYC "Genoa-X" CPUs With 1.1GB of L3 Cache Now Available
Alongside today’s EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” announcement, AMD’s other big CPU announcement of the morning is that their large cache capacity “Genoa-X” EPYC processors are shipping now. First revealed...
7 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023AMD Intros EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores For Servers, Shipping Now
Kicking off a busy day of product announcements and updates for AMD’s data center business group, this morning AMD is finally announcing their long-awaited high density “Bergamo” server CPUs...
14 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
AMD this morning is hosting their first data center and server-focused event in quite some time. Dubbed the "AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere," we're expecting a sizable...
0 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 6/13/2023